F# Weekly #29, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Now you can embed Suave web server in iOS and Android apps via Xamarin
• What if you could write F# type provider just by implementing a simple REST service?
• .NET Core Roadmap
• icanhasdot.net now reads Paket files
• New Podcast from Frank A. Krueger: Merge Conflict
• F# docker-official image is available
• The week in #.NET – 7/12/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Programming and F# with Rachel Reese
• Getting productive with F# Open Source tooling – Krzysztof Cieslak
• Distributed .NET microservices architecture with Kubernetes in the cloud – Alena Hall
• History of F#-MLs – Rachel Reese
• Broken Promises in Open Source – Jacob
• The Beating Heart of CQRS on the CLR with Paulmichael Blasucci
• Private Hallaj Encryption FSharp Without Base64
• F# CAMP – Basic concepts of Functional Programming
• Shipping one of the largest Microsoft JavaScript applications (Visual Studio Code’s story) – Alexandru Dima

Blogs

• The Elm architecture using Fable – Tomas Jansson
• F# Type Providers Development Tips (not Tricks) – Sergey Tihon
• Drone Builder – A Story of Drones, React, and F# – Frank A. Krueger
• Continuous – C# and F# IDE for iPad
• I’m Old, Part XIII: Rendering Spheres-Steve Hawley
• Lenses and lists -Peter Bayne
• Getting started with F# on .NET Core – Phillip Carter
• Type inference and automatic generalization – Alex Casquete
• De-Cruft Visual Studio – Jack Mott
• Lazy Sequences in C#, F# and ES2015 – Rohit Sharma
• Manage mutable state using actors with F# Mailbox processor – Kimserey Lam
• Referencing an F# library from C# on .NET Core – Gergely Kalapos
• Why F# –  Rachel Reese
• F# [on GPUs] for Quant Finance – Quant Alea
• BuildStats.info |> F# – Camilo Bernal
• New Fluent interface in Fslog – Antonio Parata
• Microservices hosted in Docker – Bill Wagner

F# vNext

• How to drive F# Adoption – Part 4
• FSharp.Editing Migration & Refactoring
• F# Support in .NET Native and UWP
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Return untyped syntax tree from ITypeProvider
  • Multi-case unions compiled to struct

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/754051310391996417

Open source projects

• RestProvider – Create type providers just by implementing a simple REST service
• fsslideshow – An F# image slide slow.built with the fsharp.desktop.ui,fsxaml,mahapps
• FAKE.Dotnet – .NET Command Line Interface and .NET Core SDK FAKE helpers
• interactiveprovider – A type provider abstraction for all your gaming needs
• tddstud10 – TDD Studio: Open source alternative to nCrunch, for practicing Kent Beck style TDD
• FsMap3 – A Function Library for Procedural 3-D Textures
• AleaTK – Library for general purpose numerical computing and Machine Learning based on tensors and tensor expressions

New Releases

• Paket 3.7.3 (with support of .NET 4.6.3 and .NET standard 1.6)
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.0.1.3
• Akka.FSharp 1.1.1
• fszmq 12.2.0 (release notes)
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.23.0
• Brahma.FSharp 1.0.1
• SwaggerProvider 0.5.3
• Stacks.FSharp 2.1.1

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #28